Auction Watch: 1955 Pontiac Star Chief Custom

Take a look at this 1955 Pontiac Star Chief Custom 4-door bidding here on eBay for $4,305 with auction ending on Friday.

5k: Statesboro Beige: 1962 Pontiac Star Chief

Its a poorly kept secret that the unifying force behind the DT staff is ADD (no, not Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, we are talking about Attention Deficit...hey, lets go ride our bikes).  Case in point, how would anyone find a correlation between Taj Mahal, a 1962 Pontiac and the Allman Brothers?  Piece of cake, if you're willing to follow my down the rabbit hole of this affliction...

I heard the Statesboro Blues for the first time when Taj Mahal  played a free concert on the shores of the Duck Pond at UMass (Amherst) when I was 13 yrs old in 1967. While Taj Mahal is considered the consummate natch'l bluesman, he was in fact raised in Springfield, MA.  A couple of years later, Duane Allman, who was a bona fide Georgian, burst onto the scene with his incredible slide version of the same peach. For the past 44 years, I've always thought it would have been great if Taj and the Allman brothers could have collaborated.  Well, tonight, I came across this video where Derek Trucks stands in for Duane Allman as Taj Mahal sings the Statesboro Blues, but only because when I was 8 years old (in 1962), I was introduced to the 1962 Pontiac's in my uncle's Buick/Pontiac when my Dad test drove a Grand Prix. Unfortunately, we drove home in a '62 Catalina 4 door hardtop, even though  the  Star Chief could have been a compromise between those two.

Which brings us to today's DT where we find that this 1962 Pontiac Star Chief in Statesboro, GA whose owner is offering this 52 years old piece of 'Merican Iron on Craigslist for $5,000.